Study Guide

Objectives (course unit)

Actor´s Work:
Students become familiar with the basics in actor's work. They get an overall picture of how to produce voice for speaking and learn elementary notions in voice production for dramatic expression. Students are skilled in preparing themselves for a role both in terms of music and drama, and they have skills for role work.

Dance:
Students have improved their dancing technique and body control.

Content (course unit)

Actor´s Work:
- the basics in actor's work
- role analysis
- speech technique
- fragments of fundamental literature on musicals and musical theatre
- fragments of various works

Dance:
- dance technique and prpfessional dance vocabulary
- power and flexibility exercises
- exercises that improve movement memory and coordination
- working independetly, in pairs and in groups

Further information (course unit)

Attendance 80%
Consult your teacher if you can not participate.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2) (course unit)

Assessment criterion 1-2, satisfactory
Actor’s Work
Students can empathize and express required professional quality repertoire in a satisfactory level. Their artistic and technique management is satisfactory. Expression and artistic function is not versatile enough. Mastering large entities is adequate.

Dance
Students can perform required professional level choreography moderately. Their artistic and technique expression and body control is satisfactory. Body use in movements is not versatile enough. Technique ja expressive mastering of larger entities is adequate.

Assessment criteria, good (3-4) (course unit)

Assessment criterion 3-4, good
Actor’s work
Students know and can adapt versatile techniques in their actor’s work. Students can disclose different styles and characteristics. Their expression is moderately diverse and individual, and mastering of larger entities is good.

Dance
Students manage their body performance technically and artistically and disclose different styles and characteristics. Their body control and expression is moderately diverse, and mastering and perceiving of larger entities is good. The presence is good.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5) (course unit)

Assessment criterion 5, excellent
Actor’s Work
Students indicate wide knowledge and excellent technical skills, artistic and individual conception in the field of stage expression. They adduce different styles and characteristics particular impressive way. Students have adopted a rich and strong expressive abilities in their actor’s work. They can also create well designed artistic entireties. Students can combine physical, speech expression and actor’s work and they are able to reflect variously character’s thoughts and spirit.

Dance
Students indicate an excellent technical skills, artistic and individual conception in their body performance and movement. They adduce different styles and characteristics particular impressive way. Students have adopted rich and strong expressive abilities and they can execute challenging choreographies and entireties. The presence and the performing is strong and spontaneous. Students can provide their own solo-material in movement.

Location and time

See Lukkarikone

Exam schedules

Agreed with the supervising teacher

Assessment methods and criteria

The student has participated in the teaching 80% and achieved the objectives of the course

Assessment scale

0-5

Teaching methods

Actor´s Work:
- the basics in actor's work
- role analysis
- speech technique
- fragments of fundamental literature on musicals and musical theatre
- fragments of various works

Dance:
- dance technique and prpfessional dance vocabulary
- power and flexibility exercises
- exercises that improve movement memory and coordination
- working independetly, in pairs and in groups

Learning materials

Agreed with the supervising teacher

Student workload

Attendance 80%. Requires commitment and regular participation to lessons and independent, regular training. Master classes are important part of education. The training is agreed in more detail in groups with the supervising teacher.

Content scheduling

Teaching continues steadily throughout the year, except period-weeks, when there is no regular lessons.

Completion alternatives

AHOT

Practical training and working life cooperation

Productions, performances and demos

International connections

international material and master classes (when arranged)

Further information

Check the dates from Lukkarikone.
Teachers are
Dance:
Marikka Santaharju
Actors work:
Sanna Majanlahti

NOTE!
Dance instruction is carried out in level groups of three.
Level I is basic
Level II is intermediate and
level III is advanced/ possibly completed professional studies or equivalent.
The student implements his/ her dance studies in a level group corresponding to his/ her own competence, which is definied for him/her by the dance teacher. The student can change the level group with the consent of the teacher, but the level group may not change during the studies.

Assessment criteria - fail (0) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

The student does not pass the course. There are significant gaps in expertise or lack of attendace, min. 80%

Assessment criteria - satisfactory (1-2) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

Assessment criterion 1-2, satisfactory
Actor’s Work
Students can empathize and express required professional quality repertoire in a satisfactory level. Their artistic and technique management is satisfactory. Expression and artistic function is not versatile enough. Mastering large entities is adequate.

Dance
Students can perform required professional level choreography moderately. Their artistic and technique expression and body control is satisfactory. Body use in movements is not versatile enough. Technique ja expressive mastering of larger entities is adequate.

Assessment criteria - good (3-4) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

Assessment criterion 3-4, good
Actor’s work
Students know and can adapt versatile techniques in their actor’s work. Students can disclose different styles and characteristics. Their expression is moderately diverse and individual, and mastering of larger entities is good.

Dance
Students manage their body performance technically and artistically and disclose different styles and characteristics. Their body control and expression is moderately diverse, and mastering and perceiving of larger entities is good. The presence is good.

Assessment criteria - excellent (5) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

Assessment criterion 5, excellent
Actor’s Work
Students indicate wide knowledge and excellent technical skills, artistic and individual conception in the field of stage expression. They adduce different styles and characteristics particular impressive way. Students have adopted a rich and strong expressive abilities in their actor’s work. They can also create well designed artistic entireties. Students can combine physical, speech expression and actor’s work and they are able to reflect variously character’s thoughts and spirit.

Dance
Students indicate an excellent technical skills, artistic and individual conception in their body performance and movement. They adduce different styles and characteristics particular impressive way. Students have adopted rich and strong expressive abilities and they can execute challenging choreographies and entireties. The presence and the performing is strong and spontaneous. Students can provide their own solo-material in movement.